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Femme au perroquet is related to a series of large figure compositions that Léger began in the late 1930's, the culmination of which was the largest painting he had done to date, Composition aux deux perroquets (1935-1939; Bauquier, no. 881; coll. Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris). Throughout the 1940's Léger continued to explore the theme of women and birds, and employed bands of color as a foundation for his late manner of depicting figures in space.

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Provenance

Saidenberg Gallery, New York.
Mildred Somach, New York (acquired from the above, late 1940's).
By descent from the above to the present owner, 1979.